Woman living on water-only diet stops on day 47 after realizing she could be encouraging others to 'starve to death'

A woman trying to live on nothing but water
for up to six months is calling it quits after 47 days.

Naveena Shine, 65, from Redmond, Seattle,
stopped eating on May 3 in a bid to explore breatharianism - the concept that food
is not necessary and sunlight provides all of the nourishment the body needs.

AFTER

But on Sunday she announced via Facebook
and YouTube that she is ending the
extreme self-experiment because she has realized that it's 'totally dangerous'
and likely to cause death

She continued: 'Somebody doing this without all of that in place is
synonymous to watching a tightrope walker high in the air, admiring them and
thinking you can do it too.

'Now that I see all that feedback, I am
really seeing that it is totally dangerous'

'If I got up there and tried to copy them,
the result would be instant death.'

Ms Shine will 'slowly' resume eating on June
19. In 45 days she has lost 20per cent of her body weight, taking her five-foot
four-inch frame down from 159 to 126 pounds.

Other than water she has also been drinking
tea with a 'splash of milk' and recently started taking daily vitamin
supplements.

Unpleasant side effects of her no-food diet have included 'sensations of
bile' at the back of her throat, sickness, nausea and constipation.

It also impacted on her social life. On day
seven she wrote: 'My friends had a barbeque tonight! I could not actually smell
it but I could hear them all having a good time. They did send me their love
but no steak!

'Food is such a social connection that to
give up the addiction to food also requires learning how to interact in a
non-food situation.

'Imagine going to a wedding or a party or a
buffet and not eating! I don’t even want to think of it!'

Confined to the same four walls, Ms Shine has
been filling her time with movies, exercise and sleep.

In one of her video entries she claimed she
felt 'very well' and only occasionally experienced 'twinges of what feels like
hunger'.

However, now she days that negative public
reaction has caused her to reconsider what she is doing.

'There are a lot of people who are genuinely
concerned for safety and genuinely don't think it's possible and believe it to
be dangerous,' she said on Sunday.

'Now that I see all that feedback, I am
really seeing that it is totally dangerous.'